DP Review's studio samples from the EP-3 show quite a bit of sharpening artifacts. Indeed, the white lettering on the red background looks rather disturbing and disappointing.

But, while Imaging Resource's samples with their "Comparometer" do show greater default sharpening with the EP-3 than the others, they also show much more promising results generally from the EP-3 than appears to be the case from DP Review's studio comparison: